AusTraits

Psychotria sp. Mt Lewis (V.K.Moriarty 2445)

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Family Rubiaceae

Taxonomy: Psychotria sp. Mt Lewis (V.K.Moriarty 2445) Qld Herbarium

Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Psychotria sp. (Mt Lewis V.K.Moriarty 2445) Qld Herbarium (taxonomic synonym)
  • Psychotria sp. (Mt Lewis VKM 2445) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Psychotria sp. (Mt Lewis) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Psychotria sp. 2 (Mt Lewis, Thornton Peak; G.P.Guymer 2018) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Psychotria sp. Mt Lewis, Thornton Peak (G.P.Guymer 2018) (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: Cooper_2013 (13), Kooyman_2011 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wells_2012 (87), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 38 traits from 120 records in 6 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 9 mm (8-10 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 9.5 mm (7-12 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): drupe (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006; Wells_2012]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 2443.23 mm2 (1542-3935 mm2) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 92.5 mm (45-140 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 28.5 mm (14-43 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 97.59 mg (44.47-187.52 mg) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 37.43 g/m2 (28.84-47.8 g/m2) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.18 g/g (0.15-0.21 g/g) [sources: Wells_2012]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
life history
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 5.75 mm (5-6 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 2.5 mm (2-3 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.54 mg/mm3 (0.39-0.75 mg/mm3) [sources: Wells_2012]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 3 m (3-3 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Wells_20122287J. A. Wells. “Phylogeny and inter-relations of ecological traits and seed dispersal in rainforest plants: Exploring aspects of functional diversity in primary and secondary rainforests in Australia's Wet Tropics.”. PhD. University of Queensland, 2012.
Cooper_20131013W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011913R. Kooyman, M. Rossetto, W. Cornwell, and M. Westoby. “Phylogenetic tests of community assembly across regional to continental scales in tropical and subtropical rain forests”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20 (2011), pp. 707-716. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00641.x.
Sjostrom_200644A. Sjöström and C. L. Gross. “Life-history characters and phylogeny are correlated with extinction risk in the Australian angiosperms”. Journal of Biogeography 33.2 (2006), pp. 271-290. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01393.x.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.